"I used to believe a lot of things that no longer seem to fit into my strategy for making sense of this world. Considering some of those beliefs, I consider this progress.

For instance, I’ve heard it said that beginning something is the hardest part. That if we can just get the ball rolling, momentum alone will take us from there. “Once begun, half done…”

I used to believe that.

But in my experience, we’re not much like boulders rolling down a hill.
Well, except when things go badly then, it seems, we roll with the best of them, right on down to the bottom.

But as it concerns the finer things those that we know will elevate us, make us better people, allow us to contribute more to the world and its people, experience more genuine love and joy — in those cases, it’s been my experience that in fact, beginning is very easy....